Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-25
Washington News and Gossip.

PAGES and 4 OF TEE STAR to-day contain:
The Water Rates-Powers Of the District Commis-
stoners; An Army of Women-the W. c. T. U. and
its Place Of Work; The Bolting Knights Of Labor.
Mr. Garrett's Change Of Route, A San Francisco
sensation, The Fight Among the Cherokees. Lep-
rosy In st. Louis, Jenny Lind's Hopeless Illness,
telegraphic dispatches, &C. The advertisements
are classified as follows: Auction Sales, Wood
and Coal, Proposals, Specialties, Ladies' Goods,
Family Supplies, Books, Dentistry, Educational,
Railroads Potomac River Boats, Pianos and Or
gans. Professional, Attorneys, House-furnishings
Medical Ocean steamers Sewing Machines
GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS To-DAY.-Internal rev.
enue, $297, It's; customs. $77s9o3.
INTERNAL REVENUE APPoiNTMENrs.-The Secre-
tary OF the Treasury to-day appointed Louis Adams
TO be gauger at Milford, Ohio; John W. McKerald
70 oe Storekeeper and gauger at HtllSD0r0 N. c. |;
and Henry D. Lemon to be gauger at Newton,
Ohio.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT BUILDING DRAPED WITH
BLACK.-The state Department building was
drapedin black this morning as mark OF respect
was Secre. .ary OF State for q snort time during
President Grants administration.
THEY ARE STILL RECEIvING MESSAGES at the Bal
timore and Ohio Telegraph Office, but the wires are
being taken out and transferred to the western
Union ONCE. Major Clark said to STAR reporter
to-day that he expected the office would be cleared
bI oIs ana a. cosed Sy the lst & o. " @ Insre
Union, but nothing more. He said the employees
OF the Baltimore and Ohio had, OF course, rendered
their designations, and they knew nothing as to
BRITISH GUIANA SUGARS FOR TIE UNITED STATES
The Department Of state has received dispatch,
dated September g, from the consul at Demerara,
which says that the planters in that colony are
abandoning the manufacture OF crystals for the
English market and turning their attention TO the
production OF dark sugars for the United States.
ACTING SECRETARY OF THE NAvY.-The Pre- sident
has designated Commodore D. B. Harmony, chief
OF the Bureau OF Yards and DOCKS to act as Secre-
tary OF the Navy during the temporary absence OF
Secretary whitney.
PROF. GOLFERS NEW APPorNTMENr.-Prof. Peter
Collier OF this city, formerly chief chemist Depart
ment OF Agriculture, has been appointed director
of the New York Agricultural Experiment station
Der
A CABINET MEETING was held to-day. All the
members were present except Secretary Whitney,
who has not yet retu ned from New York.
THE ENDANGERED SHIP mentioned In dispatches
to yesterdays STAR was not the Portsmouth, but
the Saratoga. The wind changing to northwest,
the vessel was got on without damage and pro-
ceeded on her voyage to New York.
CANADIAN CouNsEL-Mr. Wallace Graham, @. c.,
OF Halifax. who was the Dominion counsel In the
fishery case, which came up In the maritime prov
nce last year, WILL It is understood, be attached
TO the Canadian stan OF counsel at the meeting Of
tie FislerieS Commission In this city.
In FAVOR OF THREE STArEs.-In the United States
Supreme Court yesterday the decision OF the Court
Of Claims in favor OF the States Of louisiana Ala
bama and Mississippi, against the United states to
recover per cent OF the net ceedS OF the sales
OF pubic lands within the limits Of these states,
respectively was affirmed.
PRIVATE COLEMAN, OF the Marine Corps, has been
sentenced by the court-martial at Annapolis to
ten days solitary confinement for "disrespectful
Language" in declining to take pills prescribed by
the Navy physician.
ENSIGN GEORGE W. FoULK has been ordered to
examination for promotion.